LLVM Weekly - #74, Jun 1st 2015

Welcome to the seventy-fourth issue of LLVM Weekly, a weekly newsletter
(published every Monday) covering developments in LLVM, Clang, and related
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You may be interested in the second RISC-V
workshop,
which will be held in Berkeley June 29-30. Early bird registration ends today,
but academics can register for free. My colleague Wei and I will be there
representing lowRISC.

The documentation about the current state of LLVM's Phabricator has been
updated along with a call for volunteers to help develop necessary
improvements and modifications to Phabricator's PHP codebase.
r238295.

Clang commits

Other project commits

A new PE/COFF section-based linker has been added to lld. This follows on
from discussions about the direction of lld and whether it makes sense to
build on top of the atom model. The linker is able to self-link on Windows and
is significantly faster than the current implementations (1.2 seconds vs 5
seconds, even without multi-threading). It also takes only 250MB of RAM to
self-link vs 2GB. r238458.